White Feather Donations

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White feather (shiroi hane)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Early summer
***** Category: Observance

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shiroi hane 白い羽根 (しろいはね) white feather



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On March 8 is the day of the Red Cross and World Peace.

During the whole month of May, volunteers, especiallyl pupils and students, collect money to donate to these efforts. The donor gets a white feather to put on his lapel to show he has already given.


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In winter before christmas, other collections are made by the Central Community Chest and the donor gets a red feather.
http://www.akaihane.or.jp/english/index.html

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Bhutan

We have several sacred dates almost every month when families visit temples or monasteries and make offerings and light butter lamps, also make donations.


4th May : Shabdrung Kuchoe (Death Anniversary of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel
the founder of the state of Bhutan 1594 -1651 - the exact date of his death is uncertain as he is said to have entered a 'retreat' and died during the time. )


June 7 Lord Buddha's Parinirvana


July 2 Guru Rimpoche's Birth Anniversary


25th August - Last Sermon of Lord Buddha


. BHUTAN SAIJIKI


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Mongolia

. Feather, feathers .


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A white feather has been a traditional symbol of cowardice, used and recognised especially within the British Army and in countries associated with the British Empire since the 18th century.
It also carries opposite meanings, however: in some cases of pacifism, and in the United States, of extraordinary bravery and excellence in combat marksmanship.
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こゑ嗄らす女学生らの白い羽根
koe karasu jogakuseira no shiroi hane

hoarse voices . . .
the girl students with
the white feathers

Ishida Gifuu 石田義風

You can easily imagine the girls standing there, calling at the donors for hours and collecting money for a good cause.


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***** akai hane 赤い羽根 (あかいはね) red feather
ai no hane 愛の羽根（あいのはね） feather of love
kigo for late autumn

Central Community Chest of Japan (CCCJ)
Donations for Disaster Relief

All Nippon Airways
With each domestic fright from Tokyo on 1st October, flight attendants bring red feather and the messages of the Minister for Health and Welfare and the Chairman of Central Community Chest of Japan to the whole country.
http://www.akaihane.or.jp/english/body02.htm



WKD Autumn Observances

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Taxes and their kigo

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Tax evaluation (kemi)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Mid-Autumn
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

During the Edo period, agricultural taxes (nengu) were evaluated and collected from the farmers in form of rice. A good harvest brought higher taxes.

Taxes were determined by two systems,
kemi (毛見) and joomen じょうめん【定免】.

kemi refers to the ears of the rice plant
also called tachige たちげ【立ち毛 / 立毛】.



検見坪刈

For the kemi inspection, a group of officials came to each village in mid-autumn to check the rice fields and make estimates on the harvest. This was popular in the early Edo period.
But a lot of bribes also made their way in the pockets of the inspectors too.

Later, with the joomen inspections, the taxes were fixed for five years.
New assesments could be made in years with adverse weather conditions and a bad harvest.


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kemi 毛見 (けみ ) tax evaluation
..... kemi 検見（けみ）
kemi no shuu 毛見の衆（けみのしゅう）
group of tax evaluation officials

kemi no hi 毛見の日（けみのひ）day of tax evaluation
This was the important day, when the officials and all the village elders and farmers came to watch.

kemihate 毛見果（けみはて）

kemi no makanai 毛見の賂い（けみのまかない）
food and drink for the tax evaluation officials
Entertaining the officials while they stayed in the village.

tsubogari 坪刈（つぼがり） "harvesting one tsubo of land"
one tsubo of the rice fields was harvested on this day and the result taken as basis for the evaluation of the taxes for the coming year.
one tsubo is about 3.3 square meters.


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nengumai 年貢米 "tax rice"


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The farmer's burden was called "nengu", and is like a tax. About half of their harvest was taken away by the lord of the castle. The famers grew a lot of rice, but could rarely eat it, because they were forced to pay high taxes and the price of rice was expensive. Instead, they would usually eat barnyard grass or millet.
With no money even for rice, of course their clothing style was simple. It was usually made of cotton or hemp. They had a few days off in each year, and the farmers enjoyed their vacation drinking, or arm wrestlinging. Sometimes a few days break was allowed to do annual events and festivals.
source : www.angelfire.com


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kigo for late autumn

fukanden no soo 不堪田の奏 (ふかんでんのそう)
reporting of un-used fields
On the seventh day of the ninth lunar month, abandoned fields due to water damage by flooding or other reasons were inspected. The tax of this area could then be reduced.

Starting on the first day of the ninth lunar month, the registre books of land use were checked and ammended.

also called fuka denden 不堪佃田（ふかんでんでん）


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India

Unlike in Japan, in India, we have the beginning of the sweating season, summer. Schools reopen in Japan but they close for summer vacation here in India.
However the fiscal year ends in both the places end of March!


axmen text messages
Pay on time
Season's first sweat

- Shared by Tushar Gandhi
Joys of Japan, March 2012


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USA

. Tax paying season, income tax



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Proverb

tsuini nengu no osame toki ga kita ka .
I guess the time of reckoning has arrived at last.


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Buson Memorial Stone in Sakata


毛見の衆の舟さし下せ最上川
kemi no shuu no fune sashikudase Mogamigawa

the boat of the
tax officials floats down
river Mogamigawa



新米の坂田は早しもがみ河
shinmai no Sakata wa hayashi Mogamigawa

new rice
in Sakata town, so fast
the Mogami river

Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村



. new rice, shinmai 新米 (しんまい) 　
kigo for late autumn



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kigo for mid-winter

***** nengu osame 年貢納 (ねんぐおさめ)
paying the last taxes
tax payment, nengu 年貢（ねんぐ）
annual agricultural taxes
rice as tax payment, nengu mai 年貢米（ねんぐまい）
horses as tax payment, nengu uma 年貢馬（ねんぐうま）




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Time Memorial Day

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Time Memorial Day (toki no kinenbi)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Mid-Summer
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

toki no kinenbi 時の記念日 (ときのきねんび)
time memorial day, Anniversary of Time
toki no hi 時の日（ときのひ） "time day"

June 10





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“TIME DAY”


rookoku ろうこく【漏刻／漏剋】 "water clock"

On June 10th, way back in 671, according to the traditional calendar, the Emperor Tenji 天智天皇 (668-671) reportedly first announced the time to the people, measuring hours with a water clock (clepsydra).
In the lunar calendar, this was the 25th of the fourth lunar month.


There was an extra-governmental organization known as The Association for the Improvement of Domestic Life (seikatsu kaizen doomeikai 生活改善同盟会).
The group’s aim of improving the quality of daily life included a call for punctuality, and it designated 10 June as Time Day (Toki no kinenbi).

The main activities on 10 June included correcting the watches of passersby, by synchronizing them with a chronometer taken to streets downtown; the Association also sought the cooperation of temples, shrines, churches, and factories simultaneously to ring bells and sound the gongs and drums and whistles at twelve at noon. Lectures on time were delivered in schools and factories.

The first Time Day was held in 1920 ,
together with an exhibition on time sponsored by the Ministry of Education. School children were mobilized for the opening ceremony of the exhibition, in which they released balloons with the words jikan reikoo 時間厳守 (punctuality) written on a strip of paper in front of the Tokyo Educational Museum (the precursor of the present the National Science Museum).
©　More in the Japanese WIKIPEDIA !




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Asuka no Mizudokei - the water clock of Asuka


source : www.asukanet.gr.jp


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時の日やダリの歪めし大時計
toki no hi ya Dari no yugameshi oodokei

Time Day -
the warped big watches
of Dali

Yamaguchi Shozo (Shoozoo) 山口正三


世界史をダリの時計で秋燈　
sekaishi o dari no tokei de aki tomoshi

the world history
with the watch of Dali
in autumn lamp light

Watanabe Natsuko 渡部奈津子


. Museum Haiku
about famous people and artwork 　


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時の日や二階と下に鳴る時計
toki no hi ya nikai to shita ni naru tokei

"time day" -
on the second floor and below
the clocks are ringing

Tsuyako 艶子
http://www.aa.alles.or.jp/~igmbtcpz/haiku.html


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時の日や昔旅籠の掛時計
toki no hi ya mukashi hatago no kakedokei

time memorial day -
this wall clock
in the old inn

Sankei 山渓


. Hatago lodgings and inns and Haiku 　


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Buying time
my smart phone whispers the hour
so seductively

The wrist watch is in danger of becoming a threatened species like lions, tigers and elephants. The smartphone has unbound time that has been strapped to your wrist . . .

- Shared by Chris Loft -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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The water clock drips
Measuring the hours and days
Liquid fluid time





Chinese mechanical and horological engineering from the Song Dynasty; this diagram provides an overall general view of the inner workings and armillary sphere of Su Song's clocktower built in Kaifeng. The drawn illustration comes from Su Song's book Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao published in the year 1092. On the right is the upper reservoir tank with the 'constant-level tank' beneath it.

In the center foreground is the 'earth horizon' box in which the celestial globe was mounted. Below that are the time keeping shaft and wheels supported by a mortar-shaped end-bearing. Behind this is the main driving wheel with its spokes and scoops. Above that are the left and right upper locks with an upper balancing lever and upper link.
Wikipedia.

- Shared by Res John Burman -
Joys of Japan, 2012



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***** .SAIJIKI ... OBSERVANCES, FESTIVALS
Kigo for Summer 　


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Ocean Day

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Ocean Day (umi no hi)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Summer
***** Category: Observance

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umi no hi 海の日（うみのひ） Ocean Day, Marine Day, Sea Day
umi no kinenbi 海の記念日 (うみのきねんび) Marine Memorial Day (until 1996).

National Holiday, the third monday in July.

(It used to be July 21, but has been re-defined in 2003. Now is one of the "Happy Monday Holidays.)

Since 1996, it is the 14th official National Holiday 国民の祝日.
It is a secular holiday with no special rituals to it.
Many families take the chance to spend a long weekend on a beach.



On this day we should show our greatfulness to the sea and the ocean around Japan. Japan has more than 1000 beaches along its coastline.
It should also remind us of the Marine and remember the Emperor Meiji on his trip to Hokkaido, when he returned to Yokohama on a training vessel on n July 20, 1876.


Thanks to the Happy Monday System !
ハッピーマンデー制度, Happii Mandee Seido




The Chinese characters 海の日 can also signify
the sun over the ocean.

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Tag des Meeres


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蒲公英のかたさや海の日も一輪
tampopo no katasa ya umi no hi mo ichirin

a dandelion blossom
so hard ! on Marine Day
one blossom

or (more probable)

a dandelion blossom
so hard! the sun over the sea
also one circle

Nakamura Kusatao 中村草田男


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海の日や療養所には金魚池
umi no hi ya ryooyoojo ni wa kingyo ike

Marine Day -
at the rehabilitation center
there is a goldfish pond

Murakoshi Kaseki 村越化石
Tr. Gabi Greve
source : 海の日 69句

source : 日本海 108句

source : 太平洋 　66句


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Ocean bottom
holds all kinds of things
best left there

Barbara Casterline
(Nagoya, Japan)

Barbara Casterline wrote her haiku in celebration of umi no hi (Marine Day).
source : Asahi com. 2004

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Indian ocean--
the smell of salty water hits
our nostrils

Caleb Mutua, Kenya



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The simple use of words like SEA, OCEAN, THE ATLANTIC, THE PACIFIC and so on are not kigo but topics for haiku.


***** . . . . . SEAFOOD SAIJIKI

***** Beach Worldwide. Surfing.


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Jewish Holidays

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Jewish Holidays

***** Location: Worldwide in Jewish Communities
***** Season: See below
***** Category: Observance

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http://www.ou.org/holidays

Rosh HaShanah
1-2 Tishrei
Yom HaShoah
27 Nisan


Tzom Gedaliah
3 Tishrei
Rosh Chodesh Iyar


Yom Kippur
10 Tishrei
Chodesh Iyar


Sukkot
15-20 Tishrei
Yom Hazikaron
4 Iyar


Hosha'anah Rabah
21 Tishrei
Yom HaAtzmaut
5 Iyar


Shmini Atzeret
22 Tishrei
Lag BaOmer
18 Iyar


Simchat Torah
23 Tishrei (In Israel: 22 Tishrei)
Yom Yerushalayim
28 Iyar


Hanukkah - Chanukah -
Festival of Lights and Feast of Dedication
25 Kislev - 3 Tevet
Rosh Chodesh Sivan



Rosh Chodesh Tevet
The Month of Sivan


Asarah B'Tevet
10 Tevet
Shavuot
6-7 Sivan (In Israel: 6 Sivan)


Tu B'Shevat
15 Shevat
The Month of Tammuz


Fast of Esther
13 Adar
Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz
17 Tammuz


Purim
14 Adar
The Three Weeks
17 Tammuz - 9 Av


Shushan Purim
15 Adar
The Month of Av


Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Fast of Tisha B'Av
9 Av


Chodesh Nisan, The Month of Nisan
Tu B'Av
15 Av


Passover
15-22 Nisan (Israel: 15-21 Nisan)
Rosh Chodesh Elul


From Ruin to Renewal
Elul


Sefirat HaOmer
16 Nisan - 5 Sivan

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Passover, or Pesach (from: פֶּסַח in Hebrew, Yiddish),
Tiberian: [pɛsaħ] , Modern Hebrew: /ˈpesaχ/ Pesah, Pesakh, Yiddish: Peysekh, Paysakh, Paysokh) is an important Biblically-derived Jewish festival. It is the first of Judaism's Three Pilgrimage Festivals (שלוש רגלים), the other two being Shavuot ("Pentecost") and Sukkot ("Tabernacles").



The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation over 3,300 years ago by God from slavery in ancient Egypt that was ruled by the Pharaohs, and their birth as a nation under the leadership of Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt.
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Hannukah menorah-
grandpa recites three blessings
on the first night

Angelee Deodhar
India, 2013

Hanukkah in the WIKIPEDIA !

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Passover moon
over Jerusalem Old City -
church bells!

- Shared by Freddy Ben-Arroyo -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013



light between
heaven and earth...
paschal moon

- Shared by Pat Geyer -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013

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little boy picks a fight
over his toddler brother --
Passover!

- Shared by Brinda Buljore -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013



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